Part 1
90% of teens are online today, “Growing Up Online” produced and directed by Rachel Dretgin explores what the effect of this is. She finds incidents where online communities allow these teens to find people that have the interest as them and they are then able to show who they really are. Dretgin mostly focused on the negative incidents of this once case was of a girl who was anorexic and she found groups that supported it and in some ways worshipped the idea of being extremely thin. Dertgin also reviewed other negative incidents of online social networking that lead to thing such as school fights, suicide, and an underage girl posing scantily clad online. There is also a segment of the video on the effects of the internet on schools mostly they just say the same thing everyone says, the internet offers access to more information but also leads to more cheating. She then ties up the whole video with a part on parent’s attempts to control their kids every moment online, which for the most part just led driving wedge between the parents and kids. The kids wanting some privacy and the parents wanting to know everything about their kids lives. Mostly this video does a good job at presenting the possible dangers of the internet but it is very focused on the negative and does not so much of the good things that kids can do online. One interesting comment in the video was that the only study done so far on how kids react to being approached online by a predator said that most kids now to just not talk to them and close that widow.

Part 2
If I was to make a video on the impact of the internet and digital media on my life I would have to make it on how much we use the internet and digital media in school. From the 6th grade until I graduated high school everyone of my class rooms had smart boards and digital projectors in them. Whenever we did research for a paper most of our research had to be done online since our library had all of fifty books in it. My entire 11th grade English class was done on the computer. Even now in college we are still using the internet and digital media every day. My English and math assignments are all posted online; some of my work from English class even has to be posted on a blog. Now days the internet and digital media have completely ingrained themselves into schools. They are now part of the education process.